Sharing Your Notes Online-And Getting Paid For It

Site founders Benjamin Wald and Tyler Jenks of a website called Knetwit have found a way for people-teachers, and students alike to upload notes and get paid for them. Students can upload notes , papers and stuff like that if they think it can benefit others and get paid for it through PayPal, which is a feature also used on sites like eBay. The article cites potential pitfalls of this site could be that people can upload anything. Material that they could post may have been plagiarized, or scanned copyrighted text, which is illegal. Conversely, students could take papers that someone else has written and instead of using this as a "resource" or use it to gain better understanding of the material, they could just put their name on it and turn it in as their own work. The article states that it "does not condone plagiarism" but I see this as an obvious result of this idea. I compare it to paper mills or sites where you can buy papers that others have written or get them custom made for your purpose. I think overall this site has good intentions. You can upload notes that a friend or someone could use but it has too many areas that it could be changed into something like cheating. I think that students need to be held accountable the old fashioned way--take your own notes and write your own papers. It saves you having to worry about others plaigiarising and it helps you become a better student if you do your own work.